noun A field or open piece of land (an old, mostly historical word).
- The old charter described a wong of pasture beyond the village.
- The historian found a map that marked a wong near the old mill.
- In the old records, the farmer rented a wong at the edge of the parish.
name A common Chinese surname, from Cantonese.
- Would Mr. Kim prefer that our biracial protagonists leave Master Wong to die? Is he ignoring the fact they save him with skills the master taught them?
— Melissa Chen, Opinion ‘Kung Fu Cavemen’ isn’t racist — just the victim of moral panic by a self-righteous few (2021)
- Her name was Wong, a family that had lived in the city for three generations.
- But Hong Kong-based cross-media artist Victor Wong didn’t think the painting — which looks like a blurry oil painting of a man — was anything that revolutionary.
— Amy Gunia, This robotic arm is creating traditional Chinese ink paintings (2025)
